Inducted on February 7, 2015

Baseball 1965-1967

Men's Basketball 1965-1967

Baseball Coach 1986-1992

Rick played both baseball and basketball for the Falcons and later coached the baseball team for six years.  A pitcher, Rick was undefeated for the Golden Falcons over a two-year span.  He also played on the Centerville Community College basketball team for two seasons.  Then, after playing baseball for two years at Drake University, he embarked on a coaching career that began with stops at high schools in Eddyville and Marshalltown.  He later led Iowa Western CC to three JUCO World Series trips in five years.  Rick, a native of Cincinnati, Iowa, worked part-time during the summer for the Kansas City Royals, and later was a minor league manager and worked in player development for the Royals before taking the head baseball coaching job at Indian Hills in 1986.  His IHCC teams had a winning percentage of nearly .700 in six seasons and the Falcons finished fifth after qualifying for the 1992 JUCO World Series. Over the ensuing two-plus decades, Mathews has been in the Colorado Rockies organization in a variety of roles.  He is currently a scout for the Rockies.